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2. Africa's Missed Agricultural Revolution: A Quantitative Study of Technology Adoption in Agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- O'Gorman, Melanie (author / University of Toronto) and Centre for the Study of African Economics, Oxford, UK
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2006-07-20
- Published:
- United Kingdom
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28215
- Notes:
- Posted online at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/2007-EDiA-LaWBiDC/papers/295-OGorman.pdf, Presented at the "Economic development in Africa" conference from March 18-20, 2007 at Oxford University.
3. African workshop on extension and research - summary
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07398
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS, Mimeographed, 1984. Washington, D.C.: Agricultural Sector, Eastern and Western African Projects, World Bank. 28 p., Summarizes the papers presented at the African Workshop on Extension and Research. Topics discussed include the role of agricultural extension in sub-Saharan Africa, issues concerning current methodologies, and approaches to extension and research-extension linkages. The final section presents an overview of individual country experiences with extension. The countries represented were Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria, Malawi, Somalia, and Zimbabwe.
4. Agricultural extension and its linkage with agricultural research
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pickering, Donald (author / Agricultural and Rural Development Department, The World Bank)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 1989
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 86 Document Number: C05719
- Notes:
- CAB R742298, In: Roberts, Nigel, ed. Agricultural extension in Africa. Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 1989. p. 3-6
5. Agricultural technology in Sub-Saharan Africa: a workshop on research issues
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gnaegy Suzanna (author / Winrock International) and Anderson, Jock R. (author / Winrock International)
- Format:
- Publication
- Publication Date:
- 1991-06-30
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11012
- Notes:
- World Bank Discussion Paper 126. Washington, D.C. 158 pages., Studies from a workshop. Includes evidence that research and extension had contributed to a decline in agricultural production. "There is a broad consensus about the many factors that have contributed to failures to boost land and labor productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Both technological options and agroecological and socioeconomic circumstances in this vast region are diverse, thus creating a complex matrix of impacts and explanations. The central explanation is that research and development activities, whether public or private, national or international, have produced innovations that farmers find variously unprofitable, too risky, or impossible to implement in a timely and useful fashion. These problems lead, in turn, to often declining agricultural productivity and a deteriorating agricultural resource base, particularly of soil and forest resources. Stepping back further from the farmers themselves to the institutions that are supposed to have assisted, the difficulties are several including the poor (often irrelevant for resource-poor farmers) siting of much past experimental and testing endeavor, inadequate and temporally inconsistent staff and budget support for national research and extension organizations.
6. Bridging the gap between extension-research through on-farm adaptive research (OFAR) philosophy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Subair, Stephen K. (author / University of Botswana Library)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 2001-04-04
- Published:
- Africa: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: C20943
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, pages 357-363, from "Emerging trends in agricultural and extension education", AIAEE 2001, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference, April 4-7, 2001, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
7. Can the TV makeover format of edutainment lead to widespread changes in farmer behaviour and influence innovation systems? Shamba Shape Up in Kenya
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16 Document Number: D10461
- Journal Title:
- Land Use Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 76: 338-351
- Notes:
- 14 pages., Edutainment, the combination of education with entertainment through various media such as television, radio, mobile phone applications and games, is increasingly being used as an approach to stimulate innovation and increase agricultural productivity amongst smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Shamba Shape Up, a widely publicised makeover reality TV programme, is an example of edutainment that has received considerable attention, and airs in three countries in East Africa where it is estimated to be watched by millions of viewers. There is no published academic research on the influence of makeover television formats on innovation systems and processes in smallholder agriculture. Using an Agricultural Innovation Systems approach, this paper explores how makeover edutainment is influencing smallholder farmer innovation systems together with the effect this is having on smallholder farms. In the absence of previous research, it articulates a Theory of Change which draws on research traditions from mass communication, agricultural extension and innovation systems. Data came from two large scale quantitative (n = 9885 and n = 1572) surveys and in-depth participatory qualitative research comprising focus group discussions, participatory budgets, agricultural timelines, case studies and key information interviews in Kenya. An estimated 430,000 farmers in the study area were benefiting from their interaction with the programme through increased income and / or a range of related social benefits including food security, improving household health, diversification of livelihood choices, paying school fees for children and increasing their community standing / social capital. Participatory research showed SSU enhanced an already rich communication environment and strengthened existing processes of innovation. It helped set the agenda for discussions within farming communities about opportunities for improving smallholder farms, while also giving specific ideas, information and knowledge, all in the context of featured farm families carefully selected so that a wide range of viewers would identify with them and their challenges. Broadcasts motivated and inspired farmers to improve their own farms through a range of influences including entertainment, strong empathy with the featured host farm families, the way ideas emerged through interaction with credible experts, and importantly through stimulating widespread discussion and interaction amongst and between farmers and communities of experts on agricultural problems, solutions and opportunities. The fact that local extension workers also watched the programmes further enhanced the influence on local innovation systems. The findings indicate that well designed makeover edutainment can strongly influence agricultural innovation processes and systems resulting in impact on the agricultural production and behaviours of large numbers of smallholder farmers.
8. Comparison of frameworks for studying grassroots innovation: agricultural innovation systems and agricultural knowledge and information systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Waters-Bayer, Ann (author), Assefa, Amanuel (author), Fincham, Robert (author), and Mudahara, Maxwell (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01250
- Notes:
- Pages 35-56 in Pascal C. Sanginga, Ann Waters-Bayer, Susan Kaaria, Jemimah Njuki and Chesha Wettasinha (Eds.), Innovation Africa: enriching farmers' livelihoods. Earthscan, London, England. 405 pages.
9. Constraints to the utilisation of conservation agriculture in Africa as perceived by agricultural extension service providers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brown, Brendan (author), Nuberg, Ian (author), Llewellyn, Rick (author), and School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide CSIRO Agriculture
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16 Document Number: D10460
- Journal Title:
- Land Use Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 73: 331-340
- Notes:
- 10 pages., Via online journal., Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a knowledge-intensive set of practices which requires substantial access to functional agricultural extension services to enable utilisation. Despite this importance, the perspectives of those providing extension services to smallholder farmers have not been fully investigated. To address this, we qualitatively explore the perspectives of agricultural extension providers across six African countries to understand why uptake of CA has been limited, as well as the institutional changes that may be required to facilitate greater utilisation. Across the diversity of geographical, political and institutional contexts between countries, we find multiple commonalities in the constrained utilisation of CA by smallholder farmers, highlighting the difficulties non-mechanised subsistence farmers face in transitioning to market-oriented farming systems such as CA. The primary constraint relates to the economic viability of market-oriented farming where farmers remain in low input and low output systems with limited exit points. The assumed exit point used by CA programs appears to have led to a culture of financial expectancy and reflects a continuation of top-down extension approaches with inadequate modification of CA to the contextual realities of subsistence farmers. If African agricultural systems are to be sustainably intensified, we find a need for greater flexibility within extension systems in the pursuit of sustainable intensification. If extension systems are to persist with CA, it will need to be promoted through more transitional pathways that disaggregate the CA package, and with that there is a need for the provision of a mandate to, and necessary funding for, more participatory extension services.
10. Cultivation: knowledge or performance
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Richards, Paul (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25298
- Notes:
- Pages 61-78 in Mark Hobart (ed.), An anthropological critique of development: the growth of ignorance. Routledge, London. 235 pages.
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